十恶不赦 — Chinese idiom
十恶不赦
shí è bù shè
Traditional: 十惡不赦
Meaning
- wicked beyond redemption
- heinous
Character by character
- 十shíten, tenth; complete; perfect
- 恶èbad, evil, wicked; to hate, to loathe; foul, nause
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 赦shèto forgive, to pardon, to remit
Idioms sharing a character
- 一五一十 yī wǔ yī shí
- 一目十行 yī mù shí háng
- 五光十色 wǔ guāng shí sè
- 十全十美 shí quán shí měi
- 十拿九稳 shí ná jiǔ wěn
- 十赌九输 shí dǔ jiǔ shū
- 闻一知十 wén yī zhī shí
- 元恶大憝 yuán è dà duì
- 凶神恶煞 xiōng shén è shà
- 劝善惩恶 quàn shàn chéng è
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